# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** elon-musk\ **Created:** [August 13, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634 "2024-08-13T00:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/201 "2024-09-03T09:51:21Z")
For somebody who hates communists as much as Musk does it sure is strange that he dodged conscription into an army that was actively fighting “communists”. And I know that Musk claims he avoided national service because he didn’t want to fight for the apartheid regime, but I think that’s bullshit. He fled the country out of terror of an incoming black led government and an imagined white genocide scenario. He still goes on about white genocide in SA and is convinced it is just around the corner / currently happening. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/202 "2024-09-03T14:13:58Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Can the Cybertruck function briefly as a U-boat? Given the U- in U-boat is short for _Untersee Boot_, I bet it can do that just great. Under the sea is easy. It’s the _Wieder auf dem See Boot_ \* part that’s hard. * * * \* “On top of sea again boat” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/203 "2024-09-03T15:16:08Z")
> **[Musk suggests support for replacing democracy with government of ‘high-status...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-trump-x-views-b2605907.html)** > > The theory suggests that the only people able to think freely are ‘high \[testostrone\] alpha males’ and ‘aneurotypical people’ What the absolute fuck. > [@](#): > > The theory, written by an anonymous user, suggests that the only people able to think freely are “high [testostrone] alpha males” and “aneurotypical people”, and that these “high status males” should run a “Republic” that is “only for those who are free to think.” > > “People who can’t defend themselves physically (women and low T men) parse information through a consensus filter as a safety mechanism,” the post reads. > > “Only high T alpha males and aneurotypical people (hey autists!) are actually free to parse new information with an objective ‘is this true?’ filter,” it adds. “This is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision making. Democratic, but a democracy only for those who are free to think.” ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/204 "2024-09-03T15:22:35Z")
Elon Musk has reached the “drinking his own piss” stage of insanity, hasn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/205 "2024-09-03T15:33:19Z")
This sounds like Mush proposing a form of the Confederacy. Dan ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/206 "2024-09-03T15:38:38Z")
Happy to see we’re blazing historical trails. Oh wait. Rich, powerful dudebros controlling everything? Been there, done that ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/207 "2024-09-03T15:54:41Z")
> [@yendis](#): > > He still goes on about white genocide in SA and is convinced it is just around the corner / currently happening. I’m white, and South African. I am also Zimbabwean, a country which went to actual race war in the late 80s. That could well have ended in genocide, me and my family killed or exiled. Yet, around just 20 years later, I, and my drunk, stoned, all-white cohort of long-haired hippie teenage friends could (and did) literally drive up to the officer’s mess inside the well-guarded Presidential Guard (I mean, these are the Presidential Body guard, the most elite force in Zim) compound directly opposite Robert Mugabe’s palace and go in to order a beer or several. And have a beer with a Colonel. And have a fucking Colonel in the Zimbabwean army buy us a round. I can’t say my experience will be similar to that of the USA, but it sure does not go so well with Elons race paranoia. South Africa is pretty fucked right now by any objective estimate, but we are improving both economically and in social equality. Slow, but steady. Too slow, but it is happening. In short, as we say here in South Africa, “Elon se poes” ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/208 "2024-09-03T17:38:53Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I’m white, and South African. Psst - so’s _yendis_. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/209 "2024-09-03T19:39:35Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Elon Musk has reached the “drinking his own piss” stage of insanity, hasn’t he? We’ll know to worry when he starts peeing in his toenail jars and putting toenail clippings in his pee jars… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/210 "2024-09-03T20:54:04Z")
Elmo seems to think he’s going to somehow seize the president of Brazil’s plane. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GWjFL4uWQAMfl_s?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GWjFL4uWQAMfl_s?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/211 "2024-09-03T20:56:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Can the Cybertruck function briefly as a U-boat? As long as it doesn’t hit a fire hydrant. > **[Wet Cybertruck Catches Fire After Hitting Fire Hydrant](https://jalopnik.com/wet-cybertruck-catches-fire-after-hitting-fire-hydrant-1851635129)** > > The Cybertruck ignited outside a Bass Pro Shop in Texas after its battery pack got wet following a crash with a fire hydrant ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/212 "2024-09-03T20:59:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Elmo seems to think he’s going to somehow seize the president of Brazil’s plane To be fair, the US just seized the plane of the President of Venezuela. Somehow, however, I doubt if Biden will listen to Elmo’s pleadings. [US seizes Venezuelan President Maduro’s plane, DOJ says (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-seizes-venezuelan-president-maduros-plane-doj-says/ar-AA1pRRGB?ocid=BingNewsSerp) ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/213 "2024-09-03T22:27:26Z")
> [@yendis](#): > > He still goes on about white genocide in SA and is convinced it is just around the corner / currently happening. He’s not just worried about white genocide in South Africa. White genocide at the hands of the Jews is what the Great Replacement that he’s espoused belief in is all about. > **[The Racist 'Great Replacement' Conspiracy Theory Explained](https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/05/17/racist-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-explained)** > > The man who allegedly shot dead at least 10 people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket on Saturday may have been preoccupied by the so-called “great replacement” conspiracy theory. A sprawling propaganda document released online under his name in... > **[Elon Musk All but Endorses the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-1234941337/)** > > Elon Musk kicked off 2024 by amplifying anti-immigration rhetoric tied to the racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/214 "2024-09-03T23:02:13Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Somehow, however, I doubt if Biden will listen to Elmo’s pleadings. > > [US seizes Venezuelan President Maduro’s plane, DOJ says (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-seizes-venezuelan-president-maduros-plane-doj-says/ar-AA1pRRGB?ocid=BingNewsSerp) I think he’s counting on a different president, who would be all too willing to seize Brazilian property. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/215 "2024-09-03T23:12:05Z")
Imagine a world where Musk _owns_ trump. No, wait … we don’t have to imagine it; we’re living in it. Now once trump is the puppet president doing Musk’s bidding, then the wild ride will _really_ start. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/216 "2024-09-04T02:30:58Z")
> **[Elon Musk's Starlink says it will block X in Brazil to keep satellite...](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/03/elon-musks-starlink-says-it-will-block-x-in-brazil.html)** > > SpaceX satellite internet service Starlink said it will comply with court orders to block social network X in Brazil. Agile flip flop, sir! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/217 "2024-09-04T03:46:59Z")
> [@from the article in dougrb's post](#): > > The Cybertruck ignited outside a Bass Pro Shop in Texas after its battery pack got wet following a crash with a fire hydrant Oh, no! Don’t tell Trump about this or he will never drive his cybertruck. You have a battery and then there’s water. And what if there was a shark nearby? What would he do?! (And in case anyone wonders, Trump got the cybertruck as a gift recently.) [Donald Trump got a Tesla Cybertruck from a controversial influencer—right after the former president said EVs will ‘destroy the country’ (yahoo.com)](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-got-tesla-cybertruck-211221135.html) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/218 "2024-09-04T11:46:05Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Agile flip flop, sir! 🙂 8D Monopoly! ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/219 "2024-09-04T12:53:33Z")
I’m sure Elmo’s tantrum is unchanged. But the actual grownups at SpaceX intervened and did the necessary business thing. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/220 "2024-09-05T02:33:23Z")
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